Preface
With the continuous advancement of science and technology, scientists have proved that the genetic difference between humans and orangutans is only one percent, so is it possible for humans and orangutans to reproduce?
Soviet scientists in the last century really started experiments such as human-ape hybridization, which disregarded human morality.
The experiment, which was conducted by five young girls and 11 orangutans who volunteered, was not only approved but also supported by the Soviet government.
So, what was the result of the experiment, and what was the outcome of the five girls?
evolutionism
In 1859, the book "On the Origin of Species" was published, and Darwin proposed the hypothesis that humans evolved from apes.
Since Darwin's theory of biological evolution, most people believe that modern humans and modern gorillas are the same kind of ancestors, so people have tried to unravel their "genetic code" and break through the laws of biology that have remained unchanged for thousands of years.
The most obvious example is that human beings have broken down the boundaries between races through technology, combining two races that cannot reproduce to create new creatures.
In the animal kingdom, there are also groups with similar genes and traits that have been mated experimentally, and the result is a mule, a hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey.
Therefore, if two creatures with similar heights can avoid reproductive differences, then doesn't it mean that humans and gorillas can also reproduce the next generation?
This is obviously a violation of the basic human ethics of human beings, but the Soviet Union in the last century desperately launched the experiment of "human-ape hybridization".
Many people should have seen Rupert Valyett's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", in which the ape-man is not only extremely intelligent, but also far more physically than ordinary people.
What country would be indifferent to such military power? And the Soviet Union acquiesced in and supported Ivanov's research.
Mad scientists
Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was born in 1870 in the city of Higray in the Kursk province of Russia, and was a biologist.
After graduating from Kharkiv University, he studied in France and returned to work at the Royal Institute of Testing in Petrograd.
When he returned, Russia was still under the rule of the tsars, but as long as he had the ability, there would always be opportunities, and soon, Ivanov became famous in the field of artificial insemination.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Ivanov's method of "artificial insemination" was greatly rejected, and not only the Roman Church and other denominations opposed it, but even scientists were skeptical of the term "natural mating".
Few medical personnel who have the courage to use new technology to treat infertility cannot completely deny this tradition, often waiting in the patient's room and chanting as soon as they are done.
In such a situation, Ivanov really dared to do this, he was mainly engaged in the improvement of Soviet livestock breeding.
By the end of World War I, Ivanov had artificially inseminated a total of 6,804 cows and thousands of sheep.
Ivanov worked on the breeding of endangered creatures through artificial insemination, and he also conducted various crossbreeding experiments on antelopes, cattle, rabbits, zebras, donkeys and many other creatures.
During this time, he experimented on zebras, donkeys and other animals, and most of them were unharmed, so he had a bolder idea.
He hopes to combine humans and gorillas.
Support from the USSR
In 1910, Ivanov attended the International Zoological Congress in Graz, Austria-Hungary, where he first proposed the idea of using human sperm to breed female apes.
But at that time, Ivanov had too many research projects at hand, and he did not have enough energy to implement this new concept.
Until the October Revolution, the royal family, as well as the Russian royal family, which had financed Ivanov, was completely eradicated, and he lost access to animals and scientific instruments for experiments.
The document on experiments with the apes, written by Ivanov, belongs to the Scientific Department of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and is still in the State Archives of the Russian Federation.
The international community has rejected such an idea, which we consider to be an act of immorality, and even now we consider such an experiment to be too mad.
However, the Soviets approved the research project and gave him enough money, and it didn't take long for Ivanov to start his plan.
Heart-wrenching experiments
After receiving a large amount of national research funding, he went to Africa, where he planned to produce his research results in that uncivilized place.
Ivanov originally thought that if sperm could be injected into the body of the mother ape, then it would be possible for this new species to be born.
With this in mind, they went to Africa to recruit strong men, paid them handsomely, and involved them in their research.
Ivanov had planned to start experimenting with a female orangutan to see if he could get pregnant.
Once the experiment went well, a hybrid of apes could be born, which was definitely a sensation in the field of science at that time.
At the same time, they also acquired and captured a dozen healthy female orangutans from the local area and fertilized them.
However, he regretted that even despite Ivanov's experiments, he could not get a female orangutan pregnant.
So, Ivanov thought, is it possible to reverse the experiment, cross the semen of a gorilla and a woman's eggs, and give birth to a new race?
This idea touched the colonial authorities and the African populace, which stopped Ivanov's actions in the region.
While traveling in Africa, he met the head of a local medical institution on a ship.
After learning about Ivanov's idea, the person in charge came up with a terrifying idea - to experiment with local female patients.
Not only that, but the impersonal supervisor also said that Ivanov did not need to tell the truth to female patients and lied about treating female patients in order to carry out the trial.
This cruel experiment was at first approved by the local governor, Poiré, but later he changed his mind, saying that under no circumstances should it be carried out in the colony's hospital, "you are free to go outside." ”
Looking at the terrible situation outside the hospital, Ivanov could only give up.
Before leaving Africa, Ivanov was looking for African women to test on, and even tried to find them in the hospital in Nora, a small town in the small town of Ubanjishali in French, but failed.
In the end, it was a failure
On July 1, 1927, Ivanov and his son, two monkeys and 13 gorillas boarded a French Guinean ship, and the African experiment was declared a complete failure.
In a situation where most people could not understand Ivanov, the Communist Academy of Sciences of the USSR chose to be his back.
In April 1929, the "Academy of Communist Sciences" of the Soviet Union asked Ivanov to give him official approval and financial support for the human-ape hybrid program.
Unlike the Soviet Academy of Sciences, which was staffed by bourgeois intellectuals from old Russia, who were under heavy pressure during the Cultural Revolution, Ivanov had the privilege of joining the "Communist Academy of Sciences".
Nikolai Gorbunov, Lenin's personal secretary and chief of staff of the Soviet government, helped bring a glimmer of light to Ivanov.
In the summer of 1929, Ivanov and his team spent a lot of money on an open recruitment of female volunteers throughout the country. The first person who volunteered to register was recruited by writing a letter.
Next, four more women participated in this experiment, and a total of five women were recruited, all of whom had signed secret contracts with the institute and were kept under strict seals.
The institute is located in the Caucasus Mountains, but the environment there is not very good for apes and the like, so they have to bring in gorillas from other places as material for experimentation.
In October 1928, the institute received 11 orangutans and 20 baboons, but by 1929, most of them, except for one orangutan who met the conditions for the test, had died because they were not adapted to the climate.
Ivanov did not stop there, he decided to start the experiment with 5 subjects.
However, before the experiment could be carried out, the Soviet secret police arrested Ivanov and imprisoned him for "experiments against social morality", and Ivanov was eventually sentenced to death in exile in a foreign land.
When the Russian National Archives made the matter public, people learned how crazy the scientist really was.
Reference:
Northern Net: "Russian Media Reveals the 1927 Human-Ape Hybrid Farce"
http://news.enorth.com.cn/system/2005/02/17/000965374.shtml